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  • Co Mayo’s Great Western Greenway route

    Rural Ireland on two wheels

    A national Greenway cycling route would cost the same as a few kilometres of motorway, and transform how tourists and locals travel through the country

    36 comments
  • Paul O’Neill training in the Dublin mountains for the fearsome Marmotte route. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill

    Alpine trek: the end of a journey only a bicycle could make possible

    As a school boy,I was fascinated by the Tour de France, and now I’m taking on four of its toughest climbs

  • Meadhbh McHugh, with her not-so-beloved bicycle in Grand Canal Square, Dublin. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill

    Tumbles, tantrums and tales of a terrible new cyclist

    Our cycling series continues. After six months in the saddle and two falls, the stress of my inadequacy on a bike is giving me grey hairs

  • On the road: commuters may turn to cycling to economise, escape traffic jams or get in shape. Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times

    On Your Bike: Rise of the cyclist

    Far more Irish people are riding bikes to work now, and on safer roads, than a decade ago. Shame more of them aren’t better cyclists. As Bike Week begins, we start a series on Ireland’s cycling culture

  • Losing time: Colm Keena on Samuel Beckett Bridge, in Dublin. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill/The Irish Times

    A virtuous cyclist, for one day only

    How much longer does it take to commute if you stick to the Rules of the Road?

 

Don't get mad. Get filming

The activist-cyclist who wants to reclaim the streets

Opinion

“Of course cycling should be encouraged and protected and made central to all plans for sustainable transport.” Photograph: Reuters Cycling is a good thing, and boy do cyclists know it
  • Life & Style
  • Fintan O'Toole
  • June 11, 2013, 12:00

Pedestrians need to be protected from abuses of the law and of common courtesy

  • 409 comments
‘Cyclist Frank: Hold it right there, pal. We pay road tax too. The only difference is, we don’t use the car.’ Photograph: Sander Nagel/ Getty Images The war of the road users
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  • Frank McNally
  • June 13, 2013, 00:01

An Irishman’s Diary hosts three-way peace talks

  • 14 comments
  • “This is the cycle lane near Holywell in Swords, the road to nowhere.” Sent in by Eunan Gaffney

    Cyclepathic behaviour

    As part of our Bike to Work series, The Irish Times invited readers to send in photos of the challenges cyclists face. Here’s a selection

  • You might have heard of couchsurfing. Now try bikesurfing

    In Berlin, Irishman Graham Pope has adapted the ‘couchsurfing’ principle to bikes

  • Ben Shields, Athenry, Co Galway (8), and Maeve Brady (70) on the Greenway cycle

    Cycling the Greenway at 70

    Maeve Brady cycled the Great Western Greenway in Co Mayo for her 70th birthday last year

  • The Greenway in Westport, Co Mayo. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill

    Cycling holidays for beginners: a survival guide

    Going on a cycling holiday? Before you throw your leg over the crossbar, read this

    5 comments
  • Model behaviour: cyclists in Copenhagen. Photograph: Ulrik Jantzen/Bloomberg

    Riding too fast, running red lights, clipping wing mirrors

    Do Ireland’s cyclists deserve a bad reputation – and can we improve their behaviour?

    8 comments
  • Philip de Roos and Paddy Cahill working on a Cyclingwith video

    Rolling cameras: the bike-umentary makers

    Cycling shorts

 

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